Aged 11-16? Interested in Video Games? Pete O’Donnell, Design Manager on Freestyle Games‘ DJ Hero franchise, explains how new video games are planned and created, and shows how you can design your own.
Brought to you by BAFTA and Screen WM/Game Central, the workshop is part of the BAFTA Young Game Designers competition, which is [...]

Meet ‘em Ups are back! This month we’re in association with BAFTA and are joined by Freestyle Games talking about their follow up to the #1 New Game IP of 2009, DJ Hero 2
& get ready to dust off your DJ mixing skills to take part in the Game Central 2010 DJ Hero Tournament
As always [...]

If our Hide&Seek Meet em Up earlier this year whet your appetite for  getting involved with some pervasive games then you should head along to two free events this August at the MAC. Both events have been organised by BARG the Birmingham pervasive games network.

UKTI are currently organising a mission to the Tokyo Games Show on the 13-17th of September.
“This mission is ideal for companies who are new or have limited experience of the Japanese games market. The aim is to  provide in-depth briefings covering the challenges of working in Japan and the opportunities to work [...]

Scraperwiki, the award-winning new screen scraper and data mining tool, funded by our friends over at 4iP, is putting on a one day practical hack day in Birmingham at which developers and designers will pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data. We would like [...]

Game Horizon are offering you the chance to attend the upcoming Game Horizon Conference on June 29-30th at the Sage: Gateshead ,for just £100 (a discount of over £200!) but you need to be quick as the offer ends midnight on June 22nd.
“Game Horizon is Europe’s leading conference for international game executives. A two day [...]

This will be the last Meet ‘em Up before we take a short summer break, but to see you through those lonely Summer days without a Meet ‘em Up we’re going out with our biggest MEU to date showcasing the winning games from this years X48 XNA game [...]

Employers and workers in the creative industries, including those working in the games industry are being asked to help Skillset shape the future of the sector by taking part in the largest consultation of the Creative Media Industries.
The 2010 Creative Media Workforce and Employer Surveys, which launched on Monday (24 May), will help Skillset to [...]

Sling aside your console, PC and expectations this May 26th as Meet ‘em Up welcomes Hide&Seek founder Alex Fleetwood to introduce you to the eclectic and often very surreal world of Pervasive Games.
Pervasive games, also known as augmented reality games, city games or big games, are old forms of play fused with new technological possibilities. [...]

Taking place on Thursday 20 May at the University of Abertay, Games:EDU offers anyone involved in games education the chance to meet with your peers, to share best practice from courses throughout the UK and to help shape the future of games education courses.